With the closing of the Island Food Pantry in mid-April, the Unitarian church Friends of the Island Food Pantry concludes another winter of helping put food on the tables of needy families, seniors and unemployed workers on the Island. This program of canvassing for food donations at local supermarkets has been recognized as the single largest institutional donor of nonperishable food and personal care items on the Island.

Again this year, the Unitarian church volunteers will continue to collect food over the summer on behalf Serving Hands Distribution, which provides emergency food assistance out of the Baptist Church Parish Hall in Vineyard Haven. The group will temporarily change its identification to MV Summer Food Bank for its supermarket canvassing over the summer.

For more information, contact Betty Burton at 508-693-5339 or e-mail burtonsundman@hotmail.com.